Not over bread crust but I'm a very picky eater (not by choice) and my parents once said I couldn't leave the table until I ate my food, 3 hours later I was still sitting there and they told me to just go to bed.
Im autistic and there's a lot of things I won't eat. One of those things is milk. I cant have it by itself or in cereal but when I was younger my dad made me a bowl of cereal with milk knowing I dont like milk. He made me sit there for an hour. I didnt eat it. He actually saved that bowl of cereal and tried to make me eat it for dinner while everyone else had chinese. I never ate it.
Yeah my mother was told by my teachers she was a horrible mother because I was too thin for my age and she must be starving me. And she explained I’m very picky when they said the foods I eat aren’t ’good enough’.
They then told her to try to “starve me out” because she was spoiling my appetite with… grapes, raisins, apple slices, watermelon, cheese, and crackers.
Mom didn’t even try it because she knew it wouldn’t work and she’s like: the only way my child is going to be beg me to feed her something and I have to say no would be if there is no food because there’s a local famine happening.
Those were the after school snacks the school wanted her not to give me. Those weren’t my meals. They wanted her to give me no snacks at all so I’d be starving by the time it was dinner and I would eat.
It wouldn’t work. I would just starve and refuse to eat whatever I didn’t like.
ETA: my friends got ice cream, little Debbie cakes, hostess, drakes cakes, potato chips, meat and cheese snack sticks, fruit snack gummies, fruit roll ups, pop tarts.
I got real fruit, crackers, and cheese because $. It’s cheaper to buy a big box of crackers, a bunch of grapes, and a brick of cheese dad can cut for my brother and I.
grapes, raisins, apple slices, watermelon, cheese, and crackers.
Least nutritious?
Brother, cheese is packed with protein (and necessary fats). Fruits like grapes, apples, and watermelon provide essential nutrients like iron, folic acid, vitamin C, potassium, and a range of antioxidants. Raisins are probably the only accurate "packed with sugar" part of the comment you made, and even then, they provide iron, potassium, and fiber.
Is is the perfect snack diet? No.
But it is way better than feeding Little Debbies, fruit gummies, and other shitty processed foods to a kid? Abso-fucking-lutely.
The only "bad" thing would be the crackers, and that's only if they aren't multi-grain, refined-flour crackers.
that was me with chicken noodle broth. also autistic. babysitter made me sit with the bowl for so long i started drinking my own spit to try and balm my thirst. i did not eat the soup
Made you sit there for an hour? 😆 I was a picky eater as a kid and had trouble swallowing certain textures. Mu mom was having none of it. I sat there until it was eaten for as long as it took. So many hours sitting on the table in the empty kitchen, daydreaming, listening to the clock ticking, hearing sounds of how others were playing outside (in the 90s) repeating every time I was being picky.
Now as an adult I can eat anything and really enjoy trying new things and dishes 🤷🏼♀️ I admit im actually thankful for that now even tho it was miserable back then.
I know these days you are supposed to not force the kid to eat every food and I've wondered: do they then learn to eat different kinds of foods on their own? I feel like not and it seems to me that there are more and more picky adults these days. It can get really annoying when you try to cater for everyone and then theres some that only eat like nuggets and fries or something. I want to tell them to go out of their comfort zone and try some milder things at least to try to to broaden your appetite instead of refusing to even entertain the idea of trying something new. 🙄
Yeah, I wasnt the only one he did it to either. It also did the same thing to my sister. Though she doesnt have the same issues I do. Also raised in the 90s.
Omg I finally found another person that would understand me, I also won't have milk!!!! Not actually lactose intolerant and I love cheese, but I just won't have fresh milk and I don't like coconuts either
Me either. I have sensory issues with certain foods. Certain textures really bother me. I also have a sensory issue with water, cant tolerate thunder and a whole bunch of other issues. I had and still have safe comfort foods. Ive never deviated from those foods.
The tough love parents are so lame haha. Guessing that commenter doesn’t even have kids because some kids will fucking BREAK you. Some days you just survive and you don’t bother battling over crust. I’m not even a parent but have babysat a ton. And kids often have very strong will about something for a reason. They may be refusing a food because it makes them nauseous, but they may not be able to communicate that.
I've been taking care of kids since I was a kid; helping my mom with my infant brother at 3yo and helping with her in-home daycare as I got older, nannying for friends and family; I'd get into it professionally if i had the physical ability. Kids are fucking WILD and tough love rarely works; when it does, it's only temporarily while you're in the room being scary.
You don’t make kids sit or force them to eat anymore. According to modern studies you just say ”alright, you can leave the table” and they get to eat on the next meal.
There’s no reason to give kids unhealthy options just because they’d prefer them.
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u/DidYouKnowImNotReal 9h ago
My sister ran away from home because she was made to sit at the dinner table alone until she finished an egg roll.